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lor:rgb(0,0,0)"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Author Notification:  15 March 2023</span><span lang="EN-US"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;text-align:justify;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Yu Mincho",serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Camera-Ready Due: 10 May 2023</span><span lang="EN-US"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;text-align:justify;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Yu Mincho",serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Conference Dates: 26-28 June 2023</span><span lang="EN-US"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;text-align:justify;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Yu Mincho",serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;text-align:justify;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Yu Mincho",serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Submission Link: </span></b><span lang="EN-US"><a href="https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=metacom2023" target="_blank"><b><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=metacom2023</span></b></a></span><span lang="EN-US"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;text-align:justify;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Yu Mincho",serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> </span><span lang="EN-US"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;text-align:justify;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Yu Mincho",serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">MetaCom 2023 provides a forum for academic researchers and industry practitioners to present research progresses, exchange new ideas, and identify future directions in the field of Computing, Networking, and Applications for Metaverse.  </span><span lang="EN-US"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;text-align:justify;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Yu Mincho",serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> </span><span lang="EN-US"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;text-align:justify;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Yu Mincho",serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Scope and Objectives: </span><span lang="EN-US"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;text-align:justify;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Yu Mincho",serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Metaverse is one of the key enablers for the future society, which is envisioned to bring a new revolution to digital world. For Metaverse, physical world will be seamlessly integrated with cyber world through digitizing physical objects to create digital twins, which poses numerous challenges on human-machine interfaces, ultra-low latency, extremely high resource demands, low traffic, reliability and trustworthiness. To realize this vision, it becomes indispensable for the convergence of computing, networking and applications for Metaverse in a wide range of domains including industry, finance, medical care, smart cities, entertainment, education, and agriculture. </span><span lang="EN-US"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;text-align:justify;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Yu Mincho",serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> </span><span lang="EN-US"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;text-align:justify;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Yu Mincho",serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">The conference solicits submissions from all research areas related to Metaverse computing, networking, as well as their corresponding systems and applications. Topics of interests are covered by the following tracks:</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;text-align:justify;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Yu Mincho",serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;text-align:justify;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Yu Mincho",serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Track 1: Metaverse Architectures and Applications</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;text-align:justify;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Yu Mincho",serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><a href="https://www.ieee-metacom.org/2023/track1.php">https://www.ieee-metacom.org/2023/track1.php</a></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0cm 35.7pt;text-align:justify;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Yu Mincho",serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Symbol">·<span style="font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman"">      <span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Architecture and system design</span></p><ul type="disc" style="margin-bottom:0cm;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;text-align:justify;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Yu Mincho",serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Immersive services</span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;text-align:justify;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Yu Mincho",serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Digital twin modeling and rendering</span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;text-align:justify;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Yu Mincho",serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Animations and physical world simulations</span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;text-align:justify;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Yu Mincho",serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Model evolution, composition and library</span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;text-align:justify;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Yu Mincho",serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Holographic applications</span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;text-align:justify;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Yu Mincho",serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Virtual reality, augmented reality, mixed reality, extended reality</span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;text-align:justify;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Yu Mincho",serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Metaverse applications in different domains, such as industry, healthcare</span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;text-align:justify;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Yu Mincho",serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:rgb(51,51,51)">Design, implementation, and evaluation of novel applications</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;text-align:justify;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Yu Mincho",serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:rgb(51,51,51)">Measurement of commercial platforms</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;text-align:justify;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Yu Mincho",serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:rgb(51,51,51)">Scalability and interoperability</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"></span></li></ul><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;text-align:justify;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Yu Mincho",serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> </span><span lang="EN-US"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;text-align:justify;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Yu Mincho",serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Track 2: Networking and Communications</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;text-align:justify;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Yu Mincho",serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span lang="EN-US"><a href="https://www.ieee-metacom.org/2023/track2.php">https://www.ieee-metacom.org/2023/track2.php</a></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0cm 35.7pt;text-align:justify;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Yu Mincho",serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Symbol">·<span style="font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman"">      <span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Network architectures and design principles for metaverse</span></p><ul type="disc" style="margin-bottom:0cm;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;text-align:justify;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Yu Mincho",serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Routing metrics and algorithms</span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;text-align:justify;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Yu Mincho",serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Rendezvous services for metaverse</span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;text-align:justify;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Yu Mincho",serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Resource control and allocation</span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;text-align:justify;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Yu Mincho",serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Network management</span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;text-align:justify;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Yu Mincho",serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Interactions between cyber and physical spaces</span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;text-align:justify;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Yu Mincho",serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Data center communications for metaverse</span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;text-align:justify;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Yu Mincho",serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Decentralized communications for metaverse</span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;text-align:justify;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Yu Mincho",serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Ultra-low-time communications for metaverse</span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;text-align:justify;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Yu Mincho",serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Green communications for metaverse</span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;text-align:justify;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Yu Mincho",serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Holographic communications</span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;text-align:justify;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Yu Mincho",serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">B5G/6G for metaverse applications</span></li></ul><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;text-align:justify;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Yu Mincho",serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Track 3: Metaverse Computing </span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;text-align:justify;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Yu Mincho",serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span lang="EN-US"><a href="https://www.ieee-metacom.org/2023/track3.php">https://www.ieee-metacom.org/2023/track3.php</a></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0cm 35.7pt;text-align:justify;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Yu Mincho",serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Symbol">·<span style="font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman"">      <span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Adaptive resource provisioning and monitoring in the Metaverse cloud continuum</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0cm 35.7pt;text-align:justify;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Yu Mincho",serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Symbol">·<span style="font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman"">      <span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Resource elasticity in the cloud continuum for Metaverse applications</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0cm 35.7pt;text-align:justify;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Yu Mincho",serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Symbol">·<span style="font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman"">      <span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Computation offloading for extremely low latency in the cloud continuum<span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0cm 35.7pt;text-align:justify;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Yu Mincho",serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Symbol">·<span style="font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman"">      <span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Building flexible data paths in the cloud continuum</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0cm 35.7pt;text-align:justify;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Yu Mincho",serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Symbol">·<span style="font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman"">      <span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">High-performance Metaverse data streaming and storage</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0cm 35.7pt;text-align:justify;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Yu Mincho",serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Symbol">·<span style="font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman"">      <span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">QoS assurance and SLA in the cloud continuum<span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0cm 35.7pt;text-align:justify;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Yu Mincho",serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Symbol">·<span style="font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman"">      <span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">QoE-aware Metaverse service management</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0cm 35.7pt;text-align:justify;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Yu Mincho",serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Symbol">·<span style="font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman"">      <span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Distributed Digital Twins in the Metaverse</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0cm 35.7pt;text-align:justify;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Yu Mincho",serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Symbol">·<span style="font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman"">      <span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Tactile Internet for the Metaverse<span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0cm 35.7pt;text-align:justify;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Yu Mincho",serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Symbol">·<span style="font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman"">      <span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">End-to-end quality of service/experience in collaborative Metaverse applications</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0cm 35.7pt;text-align:justify;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Yu Mincho",serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Symbol">·<span style="font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman"">      <span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Distributed AI/ML for Metaverse resource management and applications</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0cm 35.7pt;text-align:justify;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Yu Mincho",serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Symbol">·<span style="font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman"">      <span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Data governance mechanisms in the Metaverse</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0cm 35.7pt;text-align:justify;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Yu Mincho",serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Symbol">·<span style="font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman"">      <span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Metaverse computing for cross-domain service interoperability</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0cm 35.7pt;text-align:justify;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Yu Mincho",serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Symbol">·<span style="font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman"">      <span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Metaverse computing for cross-context security and trust management</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0cm 35.7pt;text-align:justify;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Yu Mincho",serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Symbol">·<span style="font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman"">      <span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Scalability and resilience of cloud continuum-based Metaverse applications</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0cm 35.7pt;text-align:justify;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Yu Mincho",serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Symbol">·<span style="font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman"">      <span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">System design and evaluation for immersive Metaverse experiences</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0cm 35.7pt;text-align:justify;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Yu Mincho",serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Symbol">·<span style="font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman"">      <span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Innovative proposals, middleware, and application components in the following vertical domains</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;text-align:justify;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Yu Mincho",serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> </span><span lang="EN-US"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;text-align:justify;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Yu Mincho",serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Track 4: Blockchain and Web 3.0</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;text-align:justify;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Yu Mincho",serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span lang="EN-US"><a href="https://www.ieee-metacom.org/2023/track4.php">https://www.ieee-metacom.org/2023/track4.php</a></span></p><ul type="disc" style="margin-bottom:0cm;color:rgb(0,0,0);margin-top:0cm"><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;text-align:justify;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Yu Mincho",serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Zero-trust architecture and protocol design for blockchain and web3.0</span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;text-align:justify;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Yu Mincho",serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Incentive and consensus mechanisms for blockchain and web3.0</span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;text-align:justify;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Yu Mincho",serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Identity Management System for blockchain and web3.0</span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;text-align:justify;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Yu Mincho",serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Distributed storage, identifiers, and data verification in blockchain and web3.0</span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;text-align:justify;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Yu Mincho",serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Fundamental limits and theoretical guidance for blockchain and web3.0</span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;text-align:justify;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Yu Mincho",serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Emerging technologies for blockchain and web3.0</span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;text-align:justify;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Yu Mincho",serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Hardware and infrastructure implementation for blockchain and web3.0</span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;text-align:justify;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Yu Mincho",serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Smart contract and chain code</span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;text-align:justify;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Yu Mincho",serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">NFT applications and protocols</span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;text-align:justify;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Yu Mincho",serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Semantic computing and services in blockchain and web3.0</span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;text-align:justify;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Yu Mincho",serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Blockchain and web3.0 applications</span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;text-align:justify;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Yu Mincho",serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Blockchain and web3.0 standardizations</span></li></ul><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;text-align:justify;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Yu Mincho",serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> </span><span lang="EN-US"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;text-align:justify;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Yu Mincho",serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Track 5: Security, Privacy, and Trust</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;text-align:justify;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Yu Mincho",serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span lang="EN-US"><a href="https://www.ieee-metacom.org/2023/track5.php">https://www.ieee-metacom.org/2023/track5.php</a></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0cm 35.7pt;text-align:justify;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Yu Mincho",serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Symbol">·<span style="font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman"">      <span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Security, privacy and/or trust frameworks for metaverse</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0cm 35.7pt;text-align:justify;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Yu Mincho",serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Symbol">·<span style="font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman"">      <span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Secure protocols for dynamic IoT networks and metaverse</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0cm 35.7pt;text-align:justify;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Yu Mincho",serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Symbol">·<span style="font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman"">      <span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Privacy mitigation techniques for IoT-enabled extended reality for metaverse</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0cm 35.7pt;text-align:justify;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Yu Mincho",serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Symbol">·<span style="font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman"">      <span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Secure data sharing and integration mechanisms across extended IoT networks for metaverse</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0cm 35.7pt;text-align:justify;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Yu Mincho",serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Symbol">·<span style="font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman"">      <span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Trust issues to address AI/ML techniques in metaverse</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0cm 35.7pt;text-align:justify;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Yu Mincho",serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Symbol">·<span style="font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman"">      <span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Security, privacy, and trust in the context of the metaverse</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0cm 35.7pt;text-align:justify;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Yu Mincho",serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Symbol">·<span style="font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman"">      <span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">New cryptographic technologies for metaverse</span></p><ul type="disc" style="margin-bottom:0cm;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;text-align:justify;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Yu Mincho",serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Data security and governance</span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;text-align:justify;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Yu Mincho",serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Privacy preserving technologies</span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;text-align:justify;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Yu Mincho",serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Policy and regulation compliance</span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;text-align:justify;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Yu Mincho",serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Trust management framework</span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;text-align:justify;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Yu Mincho",serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">ID management, authentication and authorization</span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;text-align:justify;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Yu Mincho",serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Accountability for metaverse</span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;text-align:justify;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Yu Mincho",serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Zero-knowledge proof for metaverse</span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;text-align:justify;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Yu Mincho",serif;vertical-align:baseline"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Zero-trust architecture for metaverse</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"></span></li></ul><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;text-align:justify;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Yu Mincho",serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Track 6: Theories, Experiments and Evaluations</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;text-align:justify;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Yu Mincho",serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span lang="EN-US"><a href="https://www.ieee-metacom.org/2023/track6.php">https://www.ieee-metacom.org/2023/track6.php</a></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0cm 35.7pt;text-align:justify;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Yu Mincho",serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Symbol">·<span style="font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman"">      <span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Theoretical investigations on metaverse</span></p><ul type="disc" style="margin-bottom:0cm;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;text-align:justify;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Yu Mincho",serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Optimization, game theory, incentive designs</span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;text-align:justify;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Yu Mincho",serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">AI (e.g., machine / deep learning) experiments for metaverse</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;text-align:justify;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Yu Mincho",serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Simulators, testbeds, prototypes</span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;text-align:justify;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Yu Mincho",serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Implementations, and field experiments</span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;text-align:justify;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Yu Mincho",serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Verification of the existing knowledge</span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;text-align:justify;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Yu Mincho",serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Performance evaluation and modeling</span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;text-align:justify;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Yu Mincho",serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Quality of service and quality of experience</span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;text-align:justify;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Yu Mincho",serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Standardizations for metaverse</span></li></ul><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;text-align:justify;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Yu Mincho",serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> </span><span lang="EN-US"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;text-align:justify;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Yu Mincho",serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">MetaCom will arrange exciting panels and tutorials.</span></b><span lang="EN-US"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;text-align:justify;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Yu Mincho",serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Panel Chair: Tarek Abdelzaher Unniversity of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, USA </span><span lang="EN-US"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;text-align:justify;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Yu Mincho",serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Tutorial Chairs: Yan Zhang University of Oslo, Norway</span><span lang="EN-US"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;text-align:justify;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Yu Mincho",serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Andreas Veneris, University of Toronto, Canada</span><span lang="EN-US"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;text-align:justify;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Yu Mincho",serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><b><span lang="EN-US">The workshops are open for proposals and the PhD forum are also open for submissions.</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;text-align:justify;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Yu Mincho",serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span lang="EN-US"><a href="https://www.ieee-metacom.org/2023/cf-workshops.php">https://www.ieee-metacom.org/2023/cf-workshops.php</a></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;text-align:justify;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Yu Mincho",serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;text-align:justify;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Yu Mincho",serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Best Paper Award and Journal Special Issues:</span></b><span lang="EN-US"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;text-align:justify;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Yu Mincho",serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Three accepted papers will be selected for best paper awards. Selected papers will be recommended to Digital Communications and Networks (IF: 6.797) for potential fast-track publications.</span><span lang="EN-US"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;text-align:justify;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Yu Mincho",serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> </span><span lang="EN-US"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;text-align:justify;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Yu Mincho",serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Regular Paper Submission Guidelines:</span></b><span lang="EN-US"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 7.5pt;text-align:justify;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Yu Mincho",serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);line-height:16.2pt"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">MetaCom 2023 invites submission of manuscripts with original research results that have not been previously published or posted on public websites or that are not currently under review by another conference or journal. Submitted manuscripts must be prepared according to IEEE Computer Society Proceedings Format (double column, 10pt font, letter paper) and submitted in the PDF format. The manuscript submitted for review should be no longer than 8 pages. After the manuscript is accepted, the camera-ready paper may have up to 10 pages, subject to an additional fee per extra page. Reviewing will be <b>double-blind</b>. Submissions must not reveal the authors’ names and their affiliations and avoid obvious self-references. Manuscripts should be submitted to one of the research tracks. Submissions not meeting these guidelines will be rejected without consideration of their merits. Accepted and presented papers will be published in the IEEE MetaCom 2023 Conference Proceedings and included in IEEE Xplore.</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"MS PGothic",sans-serif"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 7.5pt;text-align:justify;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Yu Mincho",serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);line-height:16.2pt"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Submission Link: </span><span lang="EN-US"><a href="https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=metacom2023" target="_blank"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=metacom2023</span></a></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"MS PGothic",sans-serif"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;text-align:justify;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Yu Mincho",serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> </span><span lang="EN-US"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;text-align:justify;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Yu Mincho",serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">IMPORTANT DATES:</span></b><span lang="EN-US"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;text-align:justify;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Yu Mincho",serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Paper Submission Due: 30 December 2022</span><span lang="EN-US"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;text-align:justify;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Yu Mincho",serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Author Notification:  15 March 2023</span><span lang="EN-US"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;text-align:justify;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Yu Mincho",serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Camera-Ready Due: 10 May 2023</span><span lang="EN-US"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;text-align:justify;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Yu Mincho",serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Conference Dates: 26-28 June 2023</span><span lang="EN-US"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;text-align:justify;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Yu Mincho",serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> </span><span lang="EN-US"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;text-align:justify;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Yu Mincho",serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">General Chairs:</span><span lang="EN-US"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;text-align:justify;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Yu Mincho",serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Chonggang Wang, Interdigital, USA</span><span lang="EN-US"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;text-align:justify;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Yu Mincho",serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Dusit Niyato, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore</span><span lang="EN-US"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;text-align:justify;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Yu Mincho",serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> </span><span lang="EN-US"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;text-align:justify;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Yu Mincho",serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">TPC Chairs:</span><span lang="EN-US"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;text-align:justify;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Yu Mincho",serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Ruidong Li, Kanazawa University, Japan</span><span lang="EN-US"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;text-align:justify;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Yu Mincho",serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Enzo Mingozzi, University of Pisa, Italy</span><span lang="EN-US"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;text-align:justify;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Yu Mincho",serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Max (Chong) Li, Computecoin Network and Columbia University, USA</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;text-align:justify;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Yu Mincho",serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;text-align:justify;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Yu Min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